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Monday, June 19, 2017

Perils of Biking and how to avoid mitigate them

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Rizal Philippines
June 19, 2017

Happy Rizal (Birth)Day today. It is a holiday in entire Laguna to celebrate the natal day of who is recognized as national hero.

Warning: the pictures are graphic and can be disturbing

From topgear - Nathan Buenconsejo - pinned by jeepney He is a kapadyak from Rain Forest in Pasig City

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1127 deaths from bicycle accidents

The article reports that in 2005 to 2013, there were 1127 deaths arising from accidents involving bicycles compared to only 366 involving 4 wheeled or more vehicles. This is 3x more

I have long wanted to write on this to collate my experience on the said topic: perils of biking and how they can be motivated. It always escapes my attention until yesterday when a twenty foot container plowed into several people killing four in Taytay Rizal. Another post at facebook showed a donation campaign for a biker who met an accident in Antipolo: he broke his jaw when his brake locked which caused his fall. He needed jaw reconstruction which cost a lot of money.

Many of us would dismiss or shrug off the dangers and just be careful; when we have to go we go. And we would like to go with our boots on (cleats on) rather than wait for our time on the rocking chair.

I would like to list down classifications of causes/sources of dangers from biking:

Traffic hazards when riding - a reminder

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Who is at fault, the taxi or the MC?

One can not help but again remind fellow riders of the hazards that confront us when we ride (of course we are seen as hazards by others) We would like to classify the hazards as those coming from:

road obstacles
pedestrians
other two wheeled vehicles and
four wheeled vehicles

Road obstacles:

Some wishes for 2015 for road safety as we ride

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Rizal Philippines | January 10, 2015

Less pollution, more safety on the road please

There are several wishes we have for 2015 as we start to ride:

1. Less pollution on the road - Tricycles and jeep please have your engine tuned up and please do not rev your engine as we trail you or meet us. A burst of dark gases from your exhaust can damage our open lungs as we exert to sprint or climb hills;

2. Please remove (disallow)aftermarket exhaust pipes from MC that blows direct into our face. When you follow an MC, the exhaust pipe vents into the face of the one following

Always ride safe; ride conservatively at C6; pedestrians and vehicles can dart out from intersections

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Richard moments after the accident receiving first aid

Angono, Rizal PHL | December 2, 2013
Our ride yesterday would have been a happy occasion were it not marred by a crash at C6 that saw our Richard Ang badly injured. He had scratches on his right leg, cuts above right eyebrow and bleeding mouth. A group of three children crossed from the Taguig side to the Lakeside and to avoid crashing into them, he had to brake very hard. He somersaulted and crashed.

They were doing 40 kph. They were in the second group that overtook me. I stopped because I had to take pictures.

The advice is ride safely in areas where pedestrians and vehicles would be careless: C6, service road, and even Alabang Zapote road. Give all you have got at Daang Hari, and between Naic and Gen Trias.

We do not have to stop biking. This is part of biking. All endeavors have risk.

If we talk about death and injury, they are going to happen everyone what ever they are doing.

We are going is going to meet accident and death, everyone will meet his creator, but there is time and place for that, but today, we are going to stay healthy and strong through biking. Today, we will ride to Ternate and Kaybiang tunnel, and no one is going to stop us from this goal.